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No Holding Back: The Autobiography by Michael Holding; with Edward Hawkins is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is No Holding Back: The Autobiography about?

The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit, Michael Holding, author of the award-winning Why We Kneel, How We Rise As one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen, Michael Holding went by the haunting nickname 'Whispering Death', claiming 249 Test wickets. Despite having not laced his bowling boots since 1989, it remains a fitting sobriquet. As a commentator and administrator, Holding has delivered his views on cricket in the same manner that he played the game: he speaks softly with a rich Jamaican rhythm and is calculated in either criticism or compliment. NO HOLDING BACK charts his effortless transition from one of the great players to one of the great pundits. Holding graphically describes his days as a player, looking back at how he tried to deliberately hurt batsmen on the wastelands of Kingston, and his first match for Jamaica when he almost collapsed from exhaustion - after only four overs! There is time, too, to divulge what it was like to tour with the West Indies, and unmissable insights about sharing a dressing room with other legends of the game like Clive Lloyd, Sir Viv Richards and Malcolm Marshall. Holding does not shirk the big issues,

Who reads No Holding Back: The Autobiography?

Author

Michael Holding; with Edward Hawkins

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297859352

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Biography

Rating

4.3 / 5 (252 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14